BSOD Error 0x000000B8

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ok, thanks, im downloading new drivers now, will let you know if I
have
any luck installing them this time.

http://support.creative.com/Products...i+Xtreme+Audio

This is the sound Card I have, not sure why you linked me to the other
page, may have been a mistake i made in one of the earlier posts,

Nah, that was probably my mistake.

anyhow, I have downloaded the hardware testing programs and will also
let you know what is discovered once I have run them.

thanks for the help.

YW and good luck.

Ok, I ran TuffTEST - Lite v1.53 and it found an Error in the Extended
Memory.

B0000000 - BFFFFFFF - (2816 - 3072MB) - Failed

I have no idea what the extended memory is?
Is it RAM?

If it is then I tested that with memtest (1G at a time, took out all
the chips but 1 and tested then changed them and tested again) all the
chips were fine.

the error happened and then it automatically ran again and got the
error so it ran a third and fourth time, on the fourth time it just sat
there for ages (over an hour) saying testing.

the error codes where.

Error 1 - TS1 - BIT
Error 2 - TS2 - BIT
Error 3 - TS3 - BIT

I cant work anythink out from these even using google.


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Ok, I ran TuffTEST - Lite v1.53 and it found an Error in the Extended
Memory.

B0000000 - BFFFFFFF - (2816 - 3072MB) - Failed

I have no idea what the extended memory is?
Is it RAM?

If it is then I tested that with memtest (1G at a time, took out all
the chips but 1 and tested then changed them and tested again) all the
chips were fine.

the error happened and then it automatically ran again and got the
error so it ran a third and fourth time, on the fourth time it just
sat
there for ages (over an hour) saying testing.

the error codes where.

Error 1 - TS1 - BIT
Error 2 - TS2 - BIT
Error 3 - TS3 - BIT

I cant work anythink out from these even using google.

Just assume your RAM is bad. I would purchase new RAM. And since you
clearly have a hardware problem, you might want to post to a hardware
newsgroup like:

alt . comp. hardware . pc-homebuilt

ok, I will rerun the RAM tests and post any results I get, As I said in
the last post I have run them once before and got no errors but I'll do
it again to be safe.


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Ok, I have now tested Every RAM stick in every RAM Slot one at a time
and there are no errors at all. Do motherboards or Graphics Cards have
any Extended Memory?


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Just thought, If Extended memory is RAM then the TuffTEST results are
worthless anyway as I had all three sticks of rem in the PC at the time
and I have read that doing RAM checks with more than one stick in there
at a time causes errors when there are none really.


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Just thought, If Extended memory is RAM then the TuffTEST results are
worthless anyway as I had all three sticks of rem in the PC at the
time
and I have read that doing RAM checks with more than one stick in
there
at a time causes errors when there are none really.

I never heard that.

Could people please post teh best software that will test hardware in my
PC, I would like the program to be simple to use and only test 1 piece
of hardware, I need software for...

CPU.
Graphics Card.
Motherboard.
RAM.
Hard Drive.
Sound Card.

Thanks


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Ok, I have changed my Motherboard with my Girlfriends one just to test
it out and so far all seems well, I will let you know if it works or
not.

I came to this conclusion after doing some tests and realised that I
could not use my Sli mode at all, I used my girlfriends graphics cards
and they would both work in the PCI Express slot but as soon as I
connected them both in Sli the PC would not start at all. (Power would
come on but the PC wouldn't even get to the Bios beep at start up).

I'm assuming from this that the motherboard is faulty as I have a 600W
power supply so it cant be lack of power that is the issue.


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